Deadline: 22 May 2020
\nCall for entries<\/p>\n
THE WEB BIENNIAL 2020 APEIRON <\/p>\n
Open Call for Proposals<\/p>\n
The Web Biennial is an independent, artist-run and experimental online art festival.
\nOur focus is experimental New Media Art. Initiated by Genco Gulan in 2003 as one of the first online biennials, the event is hosted by the online Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum. The biennial focuses exclusively on the artistic practices intended for online preferably networked presentation. <\/p>\n
Since its emergence, unofficially in 2002 with the Reload exhibition, The Web Biennial always linked pioneering art and has been a promising model for artist-created content. It came earlier than the birth of some other user-created content applications, such as Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005) and Instagram (2010). And thus constituted a model for them.<\/p>\n
The Web Biennial so far, had six editions held in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012 and 2014, and presented the works of hundreds of artists from all over the world. It has been addressed as an exemplary case at academic conferences such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Refresh\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in 2005 and at physical exhibitions like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Regeneration.011\u00e2\u20ac\u009d organized at Plato Sanat. It started as a no sponsor, no curator, no theme art event. Later on we started working with curators such as Marcus Graf and Dimitris Fotiou who presented a selection in Athens.<\/p>\n
This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web Biennial edition, titled APEIRON.
\nThe term APEIRON coined by the ancient philosopher Anaximander (610 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 546 BC) meaning \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unlimited\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153boundless\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153infinite”, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153indefinite\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Anaximander is originally from the Menderes region of the Western Turkey that is why we feel very close to him. And also the concept APEIRON departs from the atmosphere of lock downs and pandemic pessimism. We still want to believe that, as Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everything is possible\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and thus keep on creating art.
\nIn the first quarter of the second millennium, emergence of mobile applications posed a challenge to the computer-based ones in the short run. However, the current pandemic situation proved to us that we still need alternative, independent, online art exhibition models. As they say in Broadway, show must go on! Our main purpose is to offer a platform for documenting contemporary conceptual experiments, electronic dreams and developing survival strategies for the future. <\/p>\n
In 2020, the curator of the Web Biennial 2020 is Ipek Yeginsu.
\nMs. Yeginsu is an independent art professional from Istanbul and she is the ne curator of the Web Biennial APEIRON. She is an instructor and a Ph.D. Candidate at Ozyegin University, Department of Design, Technology and Society. Since 2013, she has been curating her own exhibitions. Her curatorial practice is based on a transdisciplinary, site-specific and carry a pluralistic, participatory approach. She regards exhibitions not as finished products, but as elements for triggering the emergence of new dialogues around them. Her selected exhibitions include; Intergalactic (Anna Laudel, 2019), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Speculative Spaces\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Kare Art, 2019), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crossed Destinies: Homage to Calvino\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Bilsart, 2018), and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Synchronicity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Mebusan 25, 2017).<\/p>\n
AND finally, here is the open call: <\/p>\n
We prefer experimental, NON representative, fresh online art. We want to learn about what you are doing now and not what you have been doing. This is a
\n1)\tOpen call for Web-art. Interactive woks welcome. Send us your links.
\n2)\tOpen call for net-art. Any kind of networked online art welcome.
\n3)\tOpen call for workshop topics. We will host workshops on Zoom all through summer.
\n4)\tOpen call for online conferences and artist talks. We will utilize Zoom and Instagram live. (AND maybe others?)
\n5)\tOpen call for digitally generated images. Animated Gifs are welcome.
\n6)\tOpen call for experimental online games and downloadable apps.
\n7)\tOpen call for video art and sound art. Send us the links to your files.
\n8)\tOpen call for articles and dada text. Send us your files or links.<\/p>\n
Please write in the Subject Line: <\/p>\n
Name of the Artist and Name of the Project.
\nWe will arrange the galleries according to your submissions. First come first serve. Application is free.<\/p>\n
webbiennial2020@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Deadline: May 22, 2020.<\/p>\n We will launch our galleries in June 1st 2020. AND if you keep on sending, new galleries will pop up in July and August.<\/p>\n This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s edition will have zoom conference program all through the summer. <\/p>\n For more info: Deadline: 22 May 2020 Call for entries THE WEB BIENNIAL 2020 APEIRON Open Call for Proposals The Web Biennial is an independent, artist-run and experimental online art festival. Our focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,84,6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calls-general","category-festival","category-netart","category-online","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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